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president obama does not have to do anything. he just needs to sit back and let sequestration take place, let the bush tax cuts expire peering everything worked rate during the bill clinton years -- for eight years we have prosperity, a couple of balanced budgets and the military was a lot smaller, everybody was happy, there were buying tvs and cars and refrigerators. i think president obama -- he holds all four aces in his hand and led it happened -- let it happen. why does that c-span and all the other tv stations -- but i am talking c-span now, why -- president obama has not even been january 20 is when his swearing-in comes in. and we are called already talking about 2016. we haven't even sworn the president and and all we hear about is who is going to be the next president. to me, that is a major problem. that is all i had to say. host: we were reading the paper this morning, the headlines in some of the papers about possible contenders for 2016. but go to twitter. another tweet for you. guest: well, that could certainly fac
president obama does not have to do anything. he just needs to sit back and let sequestration take place, let the bush tax cuts expire peering everything worked rate during the bill clinton years -- for eight years we have prosperity, a couple of balanced budgets and the military was a lot smaller, everybody was happy, there were buying tvs and cars and refrigerators. i think president obama -- he holds all four aces in his hand and led it happened -- let it happen. why does that c-span and all...
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president obama is commander in chief. he sat there and watched four guys get killed on tv and not even an effort was made to rescue them. that is pretty disgusting. there was no national security. that is basically my opinion. host: what do you want to see happen now? caller: they should have an investigation and get to the bottom of it. why all the lies. host: is that congress's role? should they have an outside body? caller: it is congress's role as long as they have a bipartisan committee. it is interesting that a lot of the politicians are retiring and leaving. i think congress should set up a committee to check it out. host: from the associated press -- what do you think? paul on the independent line. caller: what scares me is the u. n. we have them pulling a lot of -- the only thing i know that comes out of beirut is hezbollah. the susan rice and secretary of state, they rubbed shoulders with some strange people. the muslim brotherhood -- we can have them and our state department. it scares me to death. i do not wan
president obama is commander in chief. he sat there and watched four guys get killed on tv and not even an effort was made to rescue them. that is pretty disgusting. there was no national security. that is basically my opinion. host: what do you want to see happen now? caller: they should have an investigation and get to the bottom of it. why all the lies. host: is that congress's role? should they have an outside body? caller: it is congress's role as long as they have a bipartisan committee....
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i think it is a job killer along with other regulations and obama-care. guest: it raises the great question. why should small businesses and families pay higher taxes to pay for president obama's spending? it is not a smart balance. it is not a serious proposal because it will not get us in a meaningful way to a balanced budget. it does not grow the economy. politically, the beat is a smart move. economically, it is not. host: larry, independent in chicago, ill. good morning. caller: good morning, libby. representative, did you sign the grover norquist tax pledge. guest: yes. caller: how do you you square that with your oath of office? you have turned your loyalty to an outsider as opposed to the american people. guest: i have to disagree. that pledge was to my voters, to make it clear to them that i do not support raising the top rate or any rate. that i support lowering rates, closing loopholes, creating more pro-growth tax code. that is what i said in that pledge. i still believe it is the right thing to do. caller: i disagree. that is not what the ple
i think it is a job killer along with other regulations and obama-care. guest: it raises the great question. why should small businesses and families pay higher taxes to pay for president obama's spending? it is not a smart balance. it is not a serious proposal because it will not get us in a meaningful way to a balanced budget. it does not grow the economy. politically, the beat is a smart move. economically, it is not. host: larry, independent in chicago, ill. good morning. caller: good...
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obama is a muslim. what he is trying to do in this country is install a socialism government, like his father did in kenya. obama almost has us bankrupt right now. we are $16 trillion in debt. once there is unrest in the streets, then he will order his rebels in the middle east to make their move and all the muslims in america to make their move and the country is overthrown. people like yourself do not understand what is going on, i do not know if you are familiar with the nuremberg trials, where the nazi officials and military officials were brought to trial in 1949. the people of germany were pleading ignorance to the fact that there were furnaces burning the jews. you are pleading ignorance. that is what you are going to do when this happens in america. host: i am only stating what we read in news reports and what the president has said. i am sorry that you feel we are giving a perspective, but our goal here is to share with you what we find, i can share more articles of president obama talking abou
obama is a muslim. what he is trying to do in this country is install a socialism government, like his father did in kenya. obama almost has us bankrupt right now. we are $16 trillion in debt. once there is unrest in the streets, then he will order his rebels in the middle east to make their move and all the muslims in america to make their move and the country is overthrown. people like yourself do not understand what is going on, i do not know if you are familiar with the nuremberg trials,...
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guest: they are probably not a huge fan of obama or romney but i think they still like president obama. the u.s. election was probably the most highest trending topics on the chinese twitter. people sent effusive congratulations to president obama when you want so i think he commands a lot of the electability in the chinese population. the one thing to watch it is a social media. there are 300 million people on social media and that is roughly equivalent to the entire united states. there are still topics you cannot talk about and it is the center but it has become a much more free-wheeling, almost democratic place to comment and could take the government. host: who is it centered by? guest: government. they raise comments -- a race, and it literally don't let people on. -- they erase comments or they don't let people on. host: are there people monitoring the 300 million tweets or social networks? guest: they have entire offices looking after this. host: conn., independent line, good morning. you are on the air. turn the volume down on your television set and go ahead. i will put you o
guest: they are probably not a huge fan of obama or romney but i think they still like president obama. the u.s. election was probably the most highest trending topics on the chinese twitter. people sent effusive congratulations to president obama when you want so i think he commands a lot of the electability in the chinese population. the one thing to watch it is a social media. there are 300 million people on social media and that is roughly equivalent to the entire united states. there are...
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i have one goal, to be obama. obama was reelected overwhelmingly. republicans want us to work together. democrats want us to work together. they want to reach a balanced approach to everything, but especially the situation we have with the huge deficit. taxes are a part of that. >> the american people have spoken. they have reelected president obama, and every elected a republican majority. if there was a mandate, it is a mandate for us to find a way to work together on the solutions to the challenges we all face as a nation. my message today is not one of confrontation, but one of conviction. mr. president, this is your moment. we are ready to be led. not as democrats or republicans, but as americans. we want you to lead as president of the united states of america. we want you to succeed. let's challenge ourselves to find the common ground that has eluded us. let's do the right thing together for our country. host: ron, you are up first. what was the message to washington? caller: i really think compromise is in the air in a positive way. it is so
i have one goal, to be obama. obama was reelected overwhelmingly. republicans want us to work together. democrats want us to work together. they want to reach a balanced approach to everything, but especially the situation we have with the huge deficit. taxes are a part of that. >> the american people have spoken. they have reelected president obama, and every elected a republican majority. if there was a mandate, it is a mandate for us to find a way to work together on the solutions to...
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president obama wants to fall off the cliff. that's why he wants to go do that to the middle class and blame the republicans. host: caller, we'll leave it there. caller: be on the republican lines say, let them talk. guest: so it may be that this filibuster idea may have more support. democrats don't want to eliminate the filibuster. they want to keep it in place but just want to change the burden and move it to where there's one bite at the apple on a particular bit. so these changes are not earth shaking. one is your perspective on it, whether you're in the majority or minority. but the way you do it becomes an important part of this. that's why the implications here are fairly clear which -- fairly clear. if we end up seeing this happen by call it the nuclear option or defined as the constitutional option that it's perfectly constitutional to change the rules by a majority. but that means on issues from the budget to immigration to many of the other priorities we have, a farm bill that's not yet gone through, we could see ano
president obama wants to fall off the cliff. that's why he wants to go do that to the middle class and blame the republicans. host: caller, we'll leave it there. caller: be on the republican lines say, let them talk. guest: so it may be that this filibuster idea may have more support. democrats don't want to eliminate the filibuster. they want to keep it in place but just want to change the burden and move it to where there's one bite at the apple on a particular bit. so these changes are not...
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, president obama's election. it was the first time. i just don't understand why we all can't get together. i know that america is based on individuality and people wanting to have a piece of the pie, but why -- it just appears that the tea party is so divisive, and i don't understand that. you know, sometimes it appears that since president obama has become president, that i've never seen so much disrespect for the office of president. oip amy kremer? guest: well, thanks for your comment, shelly, and i would to say we're not divisive. i mean, we've gone after republicans and democrats alike. we are an issues-oriented movement, focused on fiscal responsibility, limited government, free markets. that's all we're focused on. and as i said before, we want washington to live within their means. so, you know, it's not that we're here just to challenge the democrats. we're here, and we've done it, we've primaried republicans before. so i don't think that expecting our federal government and our state and local governmen
, president obama's election. it was the first time. i just don't understand why we all can't get together. i know that america is based on individuality and people wanting to have a piece of the pie, but why -- it just appears that the tea party is so divisive, and i don't understand that. you know, sometimes it appears that since president obama has become president, that i've never seen so much disrespect for the office of president. oip amy kremer? guest: well, thanks for your comment,...
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so sit back in your house and yelled obama, obama while he takes all of the food out of your mouth. host: let me echo some sentiments your efforts to facee spending resistance. the two senators, the story often notes that this is what they would like to see from the president. they want him to start negotiations at a one-one ratio. putting them in line with many in the parties that want to see a harder line taken by democrats. some advocating going over the fiscal cliff. democratic caller, mary, what do you think? having delivered the cliff and start over. host: are you concerned about the economic impact? caller: i do not know why on earth -- i am on social security. host: in order not to touch those programs -- caller: just kind of overhaul them. just fix them a tas -- tad. host: what about raising the eligibility age? caller: do not do that. i am 59. i might retire run 65. host: that is mary. on our line for republicans, kevin, go ahead. . caller: i think they should go off the cliff. for the past four years we heard how terrible the bush tax cuts are. i think we definitely need
so sit back in your house and yelled obama, obama while he takes all of the food out of your mouth. host: let me echo some sentiments your efforts to facee spending resistance. the two senators, the story often notes that this is what they would like to see from the president. they want him to start negotiations at a one-one ratio. putting them in line with many in the parties that want to see a harder line taken by democrats. some advocating going over the fiscal cliff. democratic caller,...
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it was not the obama team. the romney campaign may date late -- they won a 300 electoral votes by capturing historic blue presidential states like michigan. minnesota and pennsylvania. but romney made no real effort in any of those states other than perring latebreaking adds. number three, romney did the best to could. this is not to said the gop nominee ran the best campaign. he did not. the campaign was poorly waged. the former businessman allowed to many curious decisions to be made. in fact, much like hillary 2008 campaign.dozen messy up close. and labor aint dead. laver played a big role in helping obama and nevada and wisconsin as well as an ohio. the popularity of the auto bailout is hard to overstate. that a little bit from politico. now we want to hear from you. we will begin with a call from woodbridge, virginia on our line for democrats. good morning. go ahead. caller: good morning. i am calling it, as my first time calling c-span. a have been listening for several years. and i feel like i have to ma
it was not the obama team. the romney campaign may date late -- they won a 300 electoral votes by capturing historic blue presidential states like michigan. minnesota and pennsylvania. but romney made no real effort in any of those states other than perring latebreaking adds. number three, romney did the best to could. this is not to said the gop nominee ran the best campaign. he did not. the campaign was poorly waged. the former businessman allowed to many curious decisions to be made. in...
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barack obama voted against that. he is opposed to providing basic medical attention to a child who is born alive. that is a radical position. we've seen, as you mentioned earlier todd akin and richard murdock for their positions saying they're radical. it's radical to see a helpless newborn child who happens to survive an abortion to be shoved aside in a corner to allow to die. to be forced to die. that's radical. and then and the issue of religion i do think president obama has not gone a lot but has gone to church. that's an interesting issue because the pew research issue shows that many americans, a majority of americans actually want to see their elected officials have some affiliation with religion and recognition of god. now, i don't think obviously how far that goes there is not agreement on that. but i think in part it's because they want to know that the leaders have some sense of accountability to a higher authority. when they can't be watching the folks that they've elected at least they know god's watchi
barack obama voted against that. he is opposed to providing basic medical attention to a child who is born alive. that is a radical position. we've seen, as you mentioned earlier todd akin and richard murdock for their positions saying they're radical. it's radical to see a helpless newborn child who happens to survive an abortion to be shoved aside in a corner to allow to die. to be forced to die. that's radical. and then and the issue of religion i do think president obama has not gone a lot...
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and obama won. host: good morning, connie. caller: good morning, and good morning fred. there is nothing wrong with the republican party. it is -- we lost this election by just a tiny bit. we should keep our values. hang on to our values. and the most important thing -- well, obama is getting ready to take off and run to all these countries giving his nation-building speeches and giving his family a vacation and all this and that, but there's only one nation that we should be nation-building with, and that's israel. because israel -- israel is -- that's god's chosen land. the jews are god's chosen people. host: ok, connie, let's give fred barnes a chance to comment. guest: well, i mean that was an issue between romney who was much more pro israel though publicly in particular. we'll see how that turns out. i personally don't begrudge him a vacation after the campaign, like to take one myself. but there was another part -- oh, yeah. what she said in the beginning about the republican party. is it rea
and obama won. host: good morning, connie. caller: good morning, and good morning fred. there is nothing wrong with the republican party. it is -- we lost this election by just a tiny bit. we should keep our values. hang on to our values. and the most important thing -- well, obama is getting ready to take off and run to all these countries giving his nation-building speeches and giving his family a vacation and all this and that, but there's only one nation that we should be nation-building...
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obama is flexible of highest tax rates. and what it says is that it's not so much that he won't sign anything, it's more of how high the tax rates would go. so does that -- how do you see that? how do you reed that? caller: i would really be disappointed in that, because he's been fighting for that since the beginning. he relented a few years ago in order to save the unemployment insurance for the unemployed people and some other stipulations that were being held hostage by the g.o.p. but he doesn't have to do that any more. and right after he did that, they called that his tax breaks for the wealthy. and he absolutely didn't want to do that. but he felt compeled to to save the people who really needed help. he doesn't need to do that now. those same people that needed that help, they realized that he did that for him. if all of the tax rates go up, and i'm one of those below $40,000, all of the tax rates go up, i'd be willing to sacrifice just so the black mail can't continue. host: all right fran, thank you for calling in
obama is flexible of highest tax rates. and what it says is that it's not so much that he won't sign anything, it's more of how high the tax rates would go. so does that -- how do you see that? how do you reed that? caller: i would really be disappointed in that, because he's been fighting for that since the beginning. he relented a few years ago in order to save the unemployment insurance for the unemployed people and some other stipulations that were being held hostage by the g.o.p. but he...
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obama in the last four years. my husband lost his job and all of my neighbors tied to the defense industry are so nervous that they are going to be next. i do not know how you can say mr. obama has done anything for loudoun county. host: let's get an answer from the chairman of the democratic party. guest: thank you for the question during the war that people were concerned about in 2008 has been ended. it was president obama who brought the termination of the war in iraq, and withdrawing troops from afghanistan and now prepared for nation-building here at home rather than afghanistan and iraq. that war has been brought to an end by the president. in terms of locally, the president -- the fact of the matter is, as a said earlier, 700,000 jobs a month, over 700,000 jobs a month we were losing at the termination of the bush presidency. we are working our way back. this is a fiscal ditching that was deep. that is why it is no time to turn to the same policies that got us into it in the first place. that is why the pr
obama in the last four years. my husband lost his job and all of my neighbors tied to the defense industry are so nervous that they are going to be next. i do not know how you can say mr. obama has done anything for loudoun county. host: let's get an answer from the chairman of the democratic party. guest: thank you for the question during the war that people were concerned about in 2008 has been ended. it was president obama who brought the termination of the war in iraq, and withdrawing...
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and president obama round 11:30 a.m. eastern time will be holding an event with middle- class americans who will be impacted if negotiations do not lead to some kind of grand bargain. look for coverage of all our guns on c-span.org. linda in tennessee, republican of kalla. caller: it was obama who said do not raise taxes. it was the democrats who voted to extend the bush tax cut. for years, we have heard them say tax cuts for the rich. now we find out there were also a tax cut for the middle class and the port. -- and support. -- the poor. people who have never paid into social security or met -- or disability are getting on welfare. 16,000 a month are getting added into social security and medicare who have never paid a dime. host: linda, we are talking about the bush era tax cuts, focusing specifically this morning on the income tax cuts under the bush administration that were extended under the obama administration. that is part of a series that we are doing on the "washington journal" lead starts today that focuses o
and president obama round 11:30 a.m. eastern time will be holding an event with middle- class americans who will be impacted if negotiations do not lead to some kind of grand bargain. look for coverage of all our guns on c-span.org. linda in tennessee, republican of kalla. caller: it was obama who said do not raise taxes. it was the democrats who voted to extend the bush tax cut. for years, we have heard them say tax cuts for the rich. now we find out there were also a tax cut for the middle...
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caller: president obama." -- president obama. host: you are one of those swing voters in a swing state. caller: i was not the only one in line yesterday. a lot of african-americans there said they were undecided and i was very shocked, i thought i was the only met romney supporter in line, but i may not have been. those other issues, abortion and all of that, with hash themselves out. it would take an actual act of the supreme court, when it came to health care and things like that. right now the economy is more important to me. host: thank you very much for the call. we will be talking politics on "and newsmakers" live at 10:00 eastern time. our congress -- our conversation will be with debbie wasserman schultz. there is this piece from "the new york times" with an interesting perspective, going back 50 years. john f. kennedy campaigned in 49 states, richard nixon visited all 50. the current contest is just as close, but candidates heavily campaigned in 10 states. there are towns in a high of the have received more attention tha
caller: president obama." -- president obama. host: you are one of those swing voters in a swing state. caller: i was not the only one in line yesterday. a lot of african-americans there said they were undecided and i was very shocked, i thought i was the only met romney supporter in line, but i may not have been. those other issues, abortion and all of that, with hash themselves out. it would take an actual act of the supreme court, when it came to health care and things like that. right...
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obama twice. in reading his books, he associated with certain people before he got really big in politics. it is a fundamental thing. do you think it is a long-term agenda for the president is it all hype? guest: i think this is a real issue. the president has said he is committed to deficit reduction. so has speaker boehner. the question is, can they work together and find common ground? congress is a function -- dysfunctional place. the average age of the congressman is close to 57 years old. the institution itself could benefit from some fundamental reforms to make it work better. parties can come together on this issue and put the people of this country before their own political careers. it is a must if we are going to find a solution. host: there is a chart from 1972-2012. the question, who give young people voted for in presidential elections? no surprise. by almost a 2-1 margin, young people voted for democrats in larger margins in 2012. about the same in 2008. you have to go back to 2000
obama twice. in reading his books, he associated with certain people before he got really big in politics. it is a fundamental thing. do you think it is a long-term agenda for the president is it all hype? guest: i think this is a real issue. the president has said he is committed to deficit reduction. so has speaker boehner. the question is, can they work together and find common ground? congress is a function -- dysfunctional place. the average age of the congressman is close to 57 years old....
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i think president obama's doing a very good job. i was extremely impressed with what little i saw with him speaking yesterday. he got tearful. i admire his wife. when i watched her speech last week and i was very, very happy when she said keep showing up. so i'm going to show up at the polls. host: aside from your son getting extra credit for school, what does he think about the voting in general? caller: there's good discussion, i think, inside the school. i did think about that the other day. i don't preach to him. he does -- he had a paper route. so he reads the newspaper, which i think is important. i think he understands where we are at as a family. and i think he has a pretty good idea, you know, what the country needs and as it pertains to perhaps his circumstances. he's a very -- i think most kids are pretty intuitive and they understand. host: for our first 45 minutes, why you decided to vote or not vote. the pennsylvania is highlighted in the "wall street journal," particularly looking at its breakdown when it comes to lat
i think president obama's doing a very good job. i was extremely impressed with what little i saw with him speaking yesterday. he got tearful. i admire his wife. when i watched her speech last week and i was very, very happy when she said keep showing up. so i'm going to show up at the polls. host: aside from your son getting extra credit for school, what does he think about the voting in general? caller: there's good discussion, i think, inside the school. i did think about that the other day....
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we needed them to defeat obama. romney did not mention the constitution many times -excuse- me, i'm nervous. we have to go back to the constitution. if the republicans don't go by the constitution, they are no better than the democrats. host: plenty more time for your voices. looking for your phone calls, facebook posts, and tweets. more from the weekend activity on a morning talk shows. on sunday, tim pawlenty, a former governor of minnesota spoke about the future of the party. [video clip] >> if you look back at the election of 2012, when you have a product that you put into the marketplace and the marketplace does not buy it, you either have to have better marketing or better plan. this is a wake-up call or the republican party to have better marketing and it involves a lot of things, but clearly republicans need to do better with female voters, with latino and hispanic voters. so there's a need to better market. we also need products that sell better. that does not mean you change your philosophy, but i think pr
we needed them to defeat obama. romney did not mention the constitution many times -excuse- me, i'm nervous. we have to go back to the constitution. if the republicans don't go by the constitution, they are no better than the democrats. host: plenty more time for your voices. looking for your phone calls, facebook posts, and tweets. more from the weekend activity on a morning talk shows. on sunday, tim pawlenty, a former governor of minnesota spoke about the future of the party. [video clip]...